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Other Peace Places Map

Coventry Peace Trail Posted on 21/10/2020 by admin15/06/2022
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3 Trees Peace Gardens Map

Coventry Peace Trail Posted on 21/10/2020 by admin21/10/2020
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Peace Trail Quiz 2

Coventry Peace Trail Posted on 19/10/2020 by admin25/10/2020
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31 St Michael’s Peace Garden

Coventry Peace Trail Posted on 19/10/2020 by admin04/01/2022

Coventry is world-renowned for its multicultural citizenship and spirit of international friendship. It has 26 twinned cities from 18 countries. To celebrate these international links, the city gardeners have planted 18 triangular groups of trees in various parks around the … Continue reading →

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30 The Future Monument

Coventry Peace Trail Posted on 19/10/2020 by admin04/01/2022

Also created by Jochen Gerz, the Future Monument is a glass obelisk surrounded by plaques celebrating former enemies that have become friends to Coventry, while a smaller ring of plaques represents many of the different communities to be found in … Continue reading →

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29 The Public Bench

Coventry Peace Trail Posted on 19/10/2020 by admin04/01/2022

The Public Bench is a typical work by German conceptual artist Jochen Gerz which involves the relationship between art and life, between history and memory. The wall behind the bench is decorated with plaques celebrating personal friendships, placed there by … Continue reading →

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28 Millennium Place

Coventry Peace Trail Posted on 19/10/2020 by admin04/01/2022

Opened in 2003, Millennium Place, outside the Coventry Transport Museum, features artworks concerned with friendship and reconciliation on both a personal and community level.

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27 Belgrade Theatre

Coventry Peace Trail Posted on 19/10/2020 by admin04/01/2022

The city’s main theatre is named in honour of the capital of Serbia, once Yugoslavia, which was twinned with Coventry in 1957 and provided a gift of wood for the interior of the new building. On the building’s street frontage … Continue reading →

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Coventry Peace Trail Posted on 19/10/2020 by admin09/06/2022
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26 St John the Baptist Church

Coventry Peace Trail Posted on 19/10/2020 by admin04/01/2022

Founded in 1344, the medieval St John the Baptist Church has seen much over its long history. The church hosts a copy of a prayer of atonement, from the Black Prince, seeking peace following his battles in France. In the … Continue reading →

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25 Lidice Place

Coventry Peace Trail Posted on 19/10/2020 by admin04/01/2022

Lidice Place stands at the entrance to the Lower Precinct. It contains a decorative plaque commemorating another of Coventry’s friendship links born out of suffering, this time with Lidice. Lidice is a village in the Czech Republic not far from … Continue reading →

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24 Ira Aldridge Plaque

Coventry Peace Trail Posted on 19/10/2020 by admin04/01/2022

Ira Aldridge was an American and later British actor, playwright, and theatre manager born in New York City in 1807. In the early 1820s he started acting in the African Company which built its own theatre but, confronted with persistent … Continue reading →

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23 Phoenix Statue

Coventry Peace Trail Posted on 19/10/2020 by admin04/01/2022

George Wagstaffe’s sculpture The Phoenix stands in Hertford Street near Dresden Place. Wagstaffe is an English sculptor born in 1939 in Coventry and is still based here. He grew up surrounded by the destruction and devastation of war and also … Continue reading →

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Peace Trail Quiz 1

Coventry Peace Trail Posted on 19/10/2020 by admin25/10/2020
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22 Dresden Place

Coventry Peace Trail Posted on 19/10/2020 by admin29/12/2021

When the Second World War started, the city of Dresden, capital of the state of Saxony in the east of Germany was a major communications hub and manufacturing centre. The extensive bombing of Dresden during the final months of the … Continue reading →

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21 Godiva Statue

Coventry Peace Trail Posted on 19/10/2020 by admin29/12/2021

Godiva was a historic person, the wife of Leofric, the 11th century Earl of Mercia. Legend has it that she rode naked through the streets of Coventry – covered only by her long hair –to gain a remission of the … Continue reading →

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20 Volgograd Memorial

Coventry Peace Trail Posted on 19/10/2020 by admin29/12/2021

Coventry’s links with Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad, were established in 1944 as a result of both cities experiencing the devastation of the Second World War. The epic battle for the city raged from the spring of 1942 to February 1943. More … Continue reading →

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19 Holy Trinity Church

Coventry Peace Trail Posted on 19/10/2020 by admin29/12/2021

Before visiting Holy Trinity Church we advise you check here to find whether it will be open: https://www.holytrinitycoventry.org.uk/ This church, soaked in history, is a living, worshipping community of over 300 people a week. As a “Cross of nails” church, … Continue reading →

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18 Coventry Council House

Coventry Peace Trail Posted on 19/10/2020 by admin29/12/2021

The construction of this beautiful Council House was interrupted by the First World War and finally completed in 1920. It contains many of the city council’s offices and the Council Chamber where the city councillors meet to conduct their business. … Continue reading →

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17 St. Mary’s Guild Hall

Coventry Peace Trail Posted on 19/10/2020 by admin29/12/2021

St. Mary’s Guild Hall is one of the finest surviving medieval guildhalls in England. It was first built in the 1340s and enlarged and embellished at the end of the fifteenth century. The guildhall originally served as the headquarters of … Continue reading →

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16 Twin Cities Plinth

Coventry Peace Trail Posted on 19/10/2020 by admin29/12/2021

On 6 June 1944, a Stalingrad Friendship society was formed in Coventry and this is often taken as the first example of Coventry’s city twinning, though the official twinning came seven years later. Stalingrad later changed its name to Volgograd. … Continue reading →

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15 Herbert Art Gallery and Museum

Coventry Peace Trail Posted on 19/10/2020 by admin29/12/2021

The Peace and Reconciliation Gallery within the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum reflects Coventry’s experience of war and the city’s post-war commitment to reconciliation. It explores themes of friendship, peace, and reconciliation at local, regional and international levels. The gallery … Continue reading →

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Coventry Peace Trail Posted on 19/10/2020 by admin09/06/2022
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New Cathedral Quiz

Coventry Peace Trail Posted on 19/10/2020 by admin25/10/2020
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14 The Font

Coventry Peace Trail Posted on 19/10/2020 by admin29/12/2021

The font is carved into a boulder that was donated by the government of Jordan as a gesture towards Muslim, Christian and Jewish cooperation. It was shipped from a hillside near Bethlehem in 1960 and placed before John Piper’s stunning … Continue reading →

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